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brown bauds with somewhat ragged edges ; two near base, the inner one obscure ; 

 an autemedian bent outwards in cell ; a postmediau, broad and forked at costa, 

 sharply angled outwards on vein 5, tlieu incurved ; a narrower streak, also widely 

 forked at costa, from before apex to outer margin at vein 4 ; two short bauds at 

 anal angle, laterally confluent, becoming pointed on vein 4 ; the inner sometimes 

 united by a dark lino with the angle of postmediau band ; fringe dark chestnut. 



Hindtciiig : with traces of fonr bands, less defined than those on forewing, 

 narrow at costa, diffusedly broadening out below. 



Under>ide paler with jiartial fulvous suffusion, the biunis bright fulvous ; 

 those at anal angle much reduced. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like ground colour of witigs. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



5 c? (J from the Khasias (type) ; 1 S Sikkim 1889 (Pilcher). 



9. Banisia tetragonata Wlk. subsp. ordinaria \\'arr. 

 These are undoubtedly local forms of one species : typical ordinaria from 

 Australia are on the average the smallest of all the forms, except those from 

 Amboina, which are equally small ; tetragonata from Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, 

 and India the largest. The examples from New Guinea and tiie Louisiade Islands 

 are larger than the Australian ; while those from the islands of the Solomon group 

 come next in size to tetrogonuta. A noticeable point of diflerence is that in the 

 ab. hyphcnata the black dash in the Solomon Islands examples is always below 

 vein 2, in all the other forms above it. 



10. Beguma radiata spec. uov. 



Forewing: fulvous brown, with broad, abbreviated, slightly glossy, pale 

 ochreous bauds from costa, eacli with the c?ntre fulvous, the darker ground colonr 

 forming long wedge-shaped bands between them ; three of these pale bands, in the 

 basal half of wing, are somewhat oblicpie outwards, the two beyond the middle 

 oblique inwards, especially tlie outermost, which rises from costa before apex and 

 ends in midwiug at vein 4 ; the four oiliers are indistinct below submedian vein, 

 the dark ground colour in the lower middle of wing becoming blackish-brown ; all 

 the veins in submarginal area are marked by pale fulvous ochreous rays, that on 

 vein 6 being least conspicuous, those on 3 and 4 forming the ends of a broader 

 curved streak from three-fourths of inner margin ; fringe fulvous. 



Hindwing : with a pale autemedian band, a baud from middle of costa widening 

 downwards and forking below middle, one liranch running to anal angle but 

 bifurcating along vein 2, the other bifurcating to outer margin along veins H and 4 ; 

 vein 3 also pale-rayed ; the apex with a semi-elliptical pale costal blotch ; fringe 

 lulvous. 



Underside like u]iper, buf the pale spaces emphasised. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs all fulvous. 



Expanse of wings : 3U mm. 



1 i fiom Luebo, Kassai Hiver (P. Landbeck). 



1 refer this species to liegumu for the present : the tyj)e of the genus, 

 ]i. constellutu from India (still unique), is a ? with strongly lamellate antennae ; 

 the i of tlie new species has bipectinate antennae, bat the pectinations are short 

 and thickened at their aj)ex, like developed serrations; the forehead is strongly 

 bulged ; both wings with well-rounded angles and outer margins. 



